Environmental Studies News

Frazier applies transportation planning to wilderness areas

When national park and forest managers face transportation issues, they call community planners like Jonathan Frazier ’12 at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Mass. Frazier’s internship with the center, an innovative fee-for-service project of the U.S. Department of Transportation, led to a job directly after graduation. Frazier, from Mercer Island, Wash., said [...] Read More

Posted May 28, 2012

Ian Cheney: “Farming the City”

What is the role of urban agriculture in a 21st century sustainable food system? Are urban farms gimmicks, distractions, or key ingredients in a better agriculture? On Nov 9th, with slides and clips from his films and travels, filmmaker and environmental advocate Ian Cheney explores the wild world of urban farming, blending humor and whimsy [...] Read More

Posted Nov 02, 2011

Geology professor gets $98,000 NSF grant

Rhawn Denniston, associate professor of geology, has been awarded a $98,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study pre-historical hurricane activity in tropical northern Australia. This research continues Denniston’s work on stalagmites and involves field work in caves in the remote Kimberley region of Australia, as well as laboratory work at the University of New [...] Read More

Posted Sep 07, 2011

Author speaking as part of One Book events

Cornell College’s annual “One Book, One Campus, One Community” program is expanding to include a panel on food policy, a screening of the movie “King Corn” and a visit from an alum involved in urban farming. The events, sponsored by the Russell D. Cole Library, the Berry Center for Economics, Business and Public Policy and [...] Read More

Posted Aug 22, 2011

Latin Play lures Gallagher from environmental studies to classics

Classical Studies and Biology major Phil Gallagher discusses the transformative power of the extraordinary opportunities at Cornell. Read More

Posted Aug 10, 2011

SIG Lecture

On Nov 9th, Dr. Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll, visiting presidential fellow, will present a lecture on “The Paleoclimatic Evolution of the Monsoon Environment of Northern Australia: From Plate Tectonics to Aboriginal Vegetation Burning.” The seminar will outline the controls of the northern Australian summer monsoon at time scales ranging from those of plate tectonics to the likely [...] Read More

Posted Nov 02, 2010

Glenn Freeman chosen as artist-in-residence

Professor Glenn Freeman (English) will be an artist in residence this year at two national parks this summer: Rocky Mountain National Park and Isle Royal National park. Freeman was one of six artists were selected out of one hundred and four applicants. The other artists selected, along with their art medium, are: Steve Gifford, Photographer [...] Read More

Posted Jun 18, 2010

Environmental activist and former VP candidate to speak at Feminist Symposium

Winona LaDuke, a Native American environmental activist and two-time Vice-presidential candidate for the Green Party, will give the keynote speech at Cornell College’s annual Feminist Symposium on Saturday, March 13. LaDuke will speak about Women and the Environment at 4 p.m. in the Hedges Conference room at The Commons on Cornell’s campus. Her talk will [...] Read More

Posted Mar 08, 2010

Rainforest studies reveal unexpected species diversity

Marty Condon’s path-breaking research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, has exposed extraordinary and surprising levels of species diversity in tropical plant/insect communities. With a 2010 $270,000 National Science Foundation grant in hand, Condon and her research team are poised to push their investigations even further. Condon and her [...] Read More

Posted Feb 05, 2010

Biology professor awarded $270,769 NSF grant

UPDATE: You can read Biology Professor Marty Condon’s monograph here. MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College Biology Professor Marty Condon has been awarded $270,769 from the National Science Foundation to continue her research uncovering extraordinary levels of tropical diversity. The research, which was featured on the cover of Science magazine in May 2008, addresses a major [...] Read More

Posted Feb 03, 2010

Denniston visits with Congressional members on global warming

MOUNT VERNON – On Thursday, Sept. 10, Cornell College Geology Professor Rhawn Denniston participated in meetings with Iowa members of Congress in Washington, D.C., as part of delegations organized by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to discuss the American Clean Energy and Security bill recently passed by the House of Representatives. Denniston joined UCS [...] Read More

Posted Sep 14, 2009

Chase Whitney ’02 develops wind energy projects

Chase Whitney ’02 is a business developer for Iberdrola Renewables, the world’s largest owner and operator of wind energy facilities. Whitney majored in Environmental Studies and History at Cornell and now lives in Denver, Colo. What does your job entail? My job is to advance wind energy projects from varying stages of development to construction and [...] Read More

Posted Sep 14, 2009

Cornell raises nearly $10 million in 2008-2009; $1 million for environmental studies

MOUNT VERNON – Despite a year of economic turmoil, Cornell College could still count on its supporters to provide its students, community, and campus with one extraordinary opportunity after another. Cornell closed out the 2008-2009 year strongly, raising $9.8 million in gifts, pledges, and grants, including nearly $1 million for the environmental studies program and [...] Read More

Posted Aug 13, 2009

Mellon Foundation awards $316,000 for Environmental Studies

MOUNT VERNON – The Environmental Studies Program at Cornell College has been awarded a $316,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to enhance curriculum and further interdisciplinary study. The funds will be used to enhance integration of existing courses, develop field courses in Latin America, help introduce new courses, and to create a capstone [...] Read More

Posted Jun 29, 2009

Bernthal receives National Science Foundation award

MOUNT VERNON – Jamie Bernthal, a junior at Cornell College, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) award and will utilize the nearly $6,000 award to perform environmental policy analysis. Bernthal, a politics and economics and business major, will work this summer with a policy researcher from the University of [...] Read More

Posted May 22, 2009

Cornell receives grant to support environmental studies

MOUNT VERNON – Cornell College is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation. Cornell College will receive $10,000 per year for up to five years and an additional stock gift. The gift will provide funding for Cornell’s environmental studies program. “This is an exceptional gift from an [...] Read More

Posted May 21, 2009

Omaha Environmentalist Cammy Watkins Named Eco-Achiever by Glamour Magazine

Cammy Watkins ’02, has been recognized as one of 70 female eco-achievers in the April issue of Glamour Magazine. Watkins’ work for the Sierra Club’s ‘Cool Cities’ clean energy campaign is highlighted in the story, which includes photos taken of the group in New York City’s Central Park. Other Glamour eco-achievers include actress Alicia Silverstone, [...] Read More

Posted Mar 12, 2009

Environmental writer Scott Russell Sanders to perform reading

MOUNT VERNON – Environmental writer Scott Russell Sanders will perform a reading at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in Hedges Conference Room, Cornell College. The event is free and open to the public. Sanders is the distinguished author of more than 20 novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put, Writing [...] Read More

Posted Jan 09, 2009

Cornell celebrates “Darwin 200”

MOUNT VERNON – In celebration of the double anniversary of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, Cornell College will host a number of speakers and events commemorating Darwin’s life and work. All lectures are free and open to the public. Dr. Robert T. Pennock will kick [...] Read More

Posted Jan 07, 2009

Wilderness Field Station provides base camp for Boundary Waters courses

Since 1961, the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota has provided Cornell students with a spectacular nature-based classroom. Academic departments ranging from biology to English to politics now take advantage of the field station during first block each year as part of the annual Cornell Wilderness Term. Each course embarks on a canoe journey into [...] Read More

Posted Jan 06, 2009